... took part in this seminar.
The topics for the discussion covered Russian current foreign policy strategy, reforming Russian power structures, evolution of Russia’s military doctrine, Russia’s tools and channels of foreign policy influence, Western responses to the “Russian challenge”.
Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, and Anton Khlopkov, Director, Center for Energy and Security Studies, made reports at the seminar.
Syrian issue has become a point of tension between Russia and the West, which was recently demonstrated by the cancellation of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Paris. What are the perspectives of Aleppo situation development? What stage are the peace negotiations in Geneva at? What is to be expected in military and diplomatic ...
Recently, western media and some Russian academics have stepped up their criticism of BRICS and expressed doubts regarding the association’s prospects. Experts claimed that the Goa Summit would be a routine one, and the Five itself would lose steam, and its ...
How did the Cold War end?
Ru
ssian-Western relations, almost three decades after the end of the
Cold
War, have been tightly packed with unjustified expectations,
mispe
rceptions, misunderstandings and self-delusions on both
sides.
Quite often, Russian and Western politicians and scholars
...
... held a seminar “European Security: Challenges at the Societal Level.”
The participants of the seminar discussed the draft report prepared by the OSCE Network and addressed the following issues: the future of the European order; Russian and Western interests in the military-political and economic spheres; challenges and threats to security, as well as tools to ensure the latter; compliance with the principles and norms of international law.
The seminar was attended by the authors of the ...
Authoritarianism vs. democracy has long been established as part of modern Western discourse, with political transitions supposed to move linearly from one to the other. The problem is that authoritarian regimes proper – rationally organized secular autocracies – are increasingly scarce and giving way to crisis-ridden ...
... Delegation to Russia. The participants discussed the results of the last parliamentary elections in Russia, the development dynamics of the Russian political system, the state and prospects of relations between Russia and the European Union and the West as a whole and possible interaction between Russia and the EU in crisis situations in the Middle East and other regions of the world.
The Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) has posted on its website a report, which is a follow-up publication to the annual
Riga Dialogue Conference
that took place last May. The list of authors of the publication includes RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC Program Manager Elena Alekseenkova.
The report reflects a wide array of perceptions and interests among a variety of stakeholders in the Euro-Atlantic area, offers insights for increased mutual trust, as well as outlines...
On September 30, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council in cooperation with the
Consortium of American, European and Russian universities
held a round table “Prospects for Russia-West relations”.
The discussion covered the prospects for development of Russia-EU-US relations following Brexit, the presidential election in the United States, and the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
The discussion was attended ...
... Ivanov, former US Senator Sam Nunn and former UK Secretary of State for Defense Lord Des Browne were among the speakers at the Briefing.
The participants of the Briefing discussed the state of the Euro-Atlantic security, relations between Russia and the West, possible new initiatives in the field of arms control, as well as ways of resolving crisis situations in various regions of the world.
